Age of the marriage blog

First, I feel compelled to comment that I am not 100% past the fact that I may have reached the life stage that includes peer weddings. Despite that fact the within a three months’ time span I will have personally witnessed the nuptials of two weddings, while having to decline attendance at another, I’ve deluded myself into thinking that this is not a trend, per se, but a few early outliers. These friends who are so wildly in love as to change their tax statuses all reside south of the Mason Dixon line. And even though I live in Minnesota where the outlook on coupling is similar to say, North Carolina, true natives who can legally marry (non-homos) are not that well represented in my social circle. I figure the others will simple marry at later point in their life- when we realize that promiscuity, batshit crazy girlfriends/boyfriends, and life without children or Wustof knives – is a life we are willing to forsake. In other words when their “lights are on.”

So, imagine my surprise at not only participating in such ceremonies but having a mini bio of myself appear on a blog post entitled, "Other Wedding Participants," on my good friends’ wedding website. Aside from the economy-seating style classification implicit in the qualifier, other, it was little strange to see my adult life captured in a pithy little paragraph. Here’s John. He’s our friend. He has a degree and job and lives far away. Luckily, Kristi and Will are quite a bit more generous in their language than I might have been. Though honestly, their virtues extend beyond a few nice words and they truly deserve each other.

Alas, welcome to adulthood. Maybe I should fully embrace it. I like Crate and Barrel just as much as the next guy, and with Waterford Crystal going out of business, it’s probably as a good a time as any to engage in a little gift-giving whose reciprocal action will require a significant pay raise and an act of congress.